Nika Garkalina and Pavel Akimkin together for ten years and are officially married seven. Their relationship began in the most terrible period for Niki: first Pope seriously sick, Valery Garkalin, and then left mom. And that support and the joy that a young actor gave her, helped to stand out. Now their son Timothy has been six years old. This event has become tremendous happiness and for Valery Garkalina. Nick in the footsteps of the Father did not go, but without the theater could not, so I became a producer, it works in a CDR and with a saundrama with her husband, where they, by the way, became acquainted, and Paul still plays on the stage of the theater of nations and writes music for performances. Details - in an interview with the June issue of the atmosphere magazine.
- Why did you decide to sign?
Nika: It was a pashino decision, and I agreed. He gave me a trip to Copenhagen for a birthday, we walked around the city, and then for some reason suddenly went to a very beautiful expensive restaurant. Pasha began to say some nice words, became his knee in front of me and made an offer. Naturally, I told him that I'll think about it, and after a minute I replied. (Laughs.)
Pavel: I just wanted to make a gift. In fact, we understood that sooner or later it would happen, and I thought: "Why not now? What are we pulling? " The decision to issue our relationship did not have the way to keep it or some provocation. I was confident in myself, and in Nick. Everything logically flowed out of our lives.
- You did not regret a minute that I lost freedom in a sufficiently young age?
Pavel: Not. Who needs it, this freedom? What to do with it? I can not say that there was some kind of shirt-guy, and the freedom was needed for me.
"Pasha was next to me in a very difficult moment. I immediately became clear that with this person is not scary. "
Photo: Personal archive of Riki Garkalina and Pavel Akimkin
- Nick, and you did not regret your choice?
Nika: No, what are you! Pasha was next to me at a very difficult moment when the dad had infarction and they were in Lithuania with her mother. We worked together, often saw, communicated and somehow imperceptibly, neatly he began to take care of me. I never felt such attention in my life from anyone except parents and grandparents. And then, when it turned out that Mom was patient and she did not, he supported not only me, but also my dad, and grandparents, mother's parents. He took on his shoulders all our family, actually still someone else. We and six months were not together. And I remember how I told him: "Pasha, you don't need to be with me only because I have such a difficult period. This is too big responsibility. " What Pasha answered very strictly: "If I didn't want, I would not do." Therefore, I did not regret what I did not regret, but I immediately became clear that nothing was scared with this person. And never doubted this.
- Pasha when you began to live together, what did you open in Nick?
Pavel: Before that, I did not know her at all, and when I learned, I did not see anything that I would shock me. She is all one solid wealth (smiles.) In Nicky, such a feature is developed as respect, and in family life it is very important. When you feel a bit, you can sacrifice your desires and do as you want another. And this is very expensive to me.
- Nick, during childbirth Pasha also supported you?
Nika: At the end of my pregnancy, Pasha was not in Moscow, we had a large project "Orpheus" Sounddram and Lausanian theater in Switzerland. I lay on a sofa with a computer on my stomach, but I never had the feeling that I was alone. Pasha filled all my space, controlled my actions and on Skype, and even through my girlfriends. (Laughs.) And he managed to come just to the discharge.
- And in the most responsible moment, were you also in touch with Pasha?
Nika: In the most peak moment - no. (Laughs.) In general, I tried to connect Skype there, I wanted to know how the premieres passed, it was a very important project for us, but a nurse said to me that: "Are you at all? This is a maternity hospital. " And when everything happened, Pasha played the play, and after graduation, the director of Volodya Pankov announced that the son was born in Pavel Akimkin, and all the Swiss applauded, cried, it was, as he told, a very touching moment.
"In the nickname, such a feature is developed as respect, and in family life it is very important."
Photo: Personal archive of Riki Garkalina and Pavel Akimkin
- Nick, you have before Pasha had a marriage experience, completely different ...
Nika: Yes, it happens that people are mistaken. And my first husband, a musician, happily married, now lives in Israel, he also born a child. So for both of us as if this marriage was not. I do not think that it is correct to compare something, but I really feel that now everything is different.
"It seems to me that in your family the leader was a mother, and the dad in a good way was conveniently located under its soft cable ...
Nika: It was convenient to everyone. (Laughs.) It seems to me that this is such a female wisdom. I would not call my mother leader, she was the foundation of a family, a serious shoulder on which everyone close to appear. Of course, some domestic issues lay on it, but she also consulted with dad.
- When moms did not, you lived everything together ...
Nika: Yes, more than two years. Before that, I lived separately, but when mom died, we were in Pope. And so and stayed there. I remember how I saw him once in front of the microwave. He put a porridge there, closed and stood ... It became clear that he did not know how to turn it on. That is, he needed help in the most ordinary household things, not to mention his spiritual and physical well-being. And we lived very friendly. Pasha absolutely organically entered the space of our house and in dad life, they very easily arranged the relationship. Because of this, we could not move for a long time. We traveled with dad on tour. And we had a completely great journey to Paris.
- And you in your family, probably, Pasha - chapter?
Nika: It seems to me that we live in a state of democracy. I can't even remember the situations where we walked with or figured out relationships. Of course, there are some resentment, but they are so rapidly and seem so ridiculous after time, because, as a rule, are associated with fatigue or inappropriate.
- Which of you is more emotional and more quick-tempered?
Pavel: We are somehow synchronously we usy, but at the same time, thank God, very quickly Gasny. Do not sink at all, it seems impossible to me. The main thing is not to part on a bad note. Send from home, leave a person one in such an atmosphere - Pogano.
The appearance of grandson was a great joy for Valeria Garkalina
Photo: Personal archive of Riki Garkalina and Pavel Akimkin
- Nick, Pasha works a lot. Do you and son lack him?
Nika: Of course, it is not enough, because you always want to spend with people you love, more time. Pasha has tremendous employment and thank God, because without work he is worn. I myself work in the theater and perfectly understand what the graduation period is what is the writing of music and how much time it takes. But still, when I come to the performance, where Pasha created music, most often from director Serge Zemlyansky, I feel a feeling of pride and I do not understand when he managed to do it. If Pasha has free half an hour, he will fully devote them to his son. This morning they were sinking, together collected "Lego" and prepared breakfast. I hope that the child will grow and say that dad worked all the time.
- There is also a vacation, travel ...
Nika: Yes, we love to travel very much. I am happy as Pasha in this is absolutely the same. In each family, the monetary budget is distributed in its own way: someone builds at home, someone postpones, and my parents have money ever walked for travel. The first thing they did when the opportunity appeared, sent me for fourteen years to London on exchange with the school, and six months later - in New York to my friend. If they had three free days, they sat down on a plane and flew, for example, to Norway, and if the week, they chose to friends in New York. And Pasha, since his dad military, lived in Estonia, and in Denmark, and on the border outpost. And he has a unique quality - he is a very open world man. He is interested in everything, all kinds of art, new inventions. We try at least once every six months a week or two go somewhere, take the car and travel.
- You never rest without tyomos?
Pavel: Without him we went only once on tour to America. But the rest Timofey does not interfere. While we feel great threesome. It seems to me that romance is with Nick and so exist. Therefore, such an excavatory need to relax together we have no.
- Do you converge in your preferences regarding the places of recreation and pastime there?
Nika: Not really. But you can easily find compromises, as in everything. Pasha loves mountains, lakes, relaxing rest and endless moving. And I adore the sea, and I want to be at least a week in one place. (Laughs.) Last year were in Slovenia. They flew to Ljubljana, took the car and drove into the mountains. They lived there, then traveled around the district, and then spent the week on the sea. Even Pasha enjoy renting apartments, it seems to him that it is as if you live the life of this city, the country, and I love hotels, breakfast there, it is a special ritual for me. As a result, we lived in the mountains in the mountains, and the sea is in the apartment. Any little disagreement can be inflated into a huge problem if you stand on your own.
The whole family with pleasure traveling together, opening new countries and horizons
Photo: Personal archive of Riki Garkalina and Pavel Akimkin
- Pasha easy to visit?
Nika: Yes, he doesn't care all this. Life begins to eat people, they are annoyed, cling to lying things. I love to restore order, lay everything around the shelves. But we have something to lie down if anyone has no mood to clean. I am preparing once every two or three days, and all this is eaten with pleasure. Pasha can make breakfast itself. For example, Timofey eats only dad scrambled eggs.
Pavel: I also love purity, but not up to paranoia. And I will never reveal the nickname. She throws one sweat of one sweat on the floor, well, for God's sake. (Smiles.) If it annoys me, I will remove it. Helper by busy once a week helps with cases for which we are hard time to find: to releasing all the underwear, move the floors, speuthes. But in general, the main thing is not to litter. (Laughs.)
- Are you so uncomplicated and living with parents?
Pavel: It seems to me that I have always been not very picky. In childhood, like all the children, did not really loved, and in the hostel ate, like the rest, what was. I can eat the same month. My friends, laughing, said before: "At Akimkin in the refrigerator there is always mayonnaise, dumplings, butter and milk for coffee." Such a gentleman's set. And Nika is preparing a spreading, although it believes that she has all the dishes - simple.
- Does this mean that in many questions you are a conservative? Does this relate to recreation sites, clothes, with difficulty parting?
Pavel: This is me absolutely. I hate throwing things, I can walk in the same year. If they were not dirty, I would not be changed at all. But now I have learned myself every day to wear something new. Thank God, the wardrobe is not so big: three or four things that I change every day.
- Pasha, and Nicky has any habits that you would change?
Pavel: Change ... no. There are some little things, for example, she is going somewhere for a long time, but it amuses me more than annoying. She asks me all the time: "How can I?" And I usually say: "Very good." She just needs to say that it is not necessary to measure the thirtieth shirt and go in this one, it is beautiful. Then she likes it immediately.
- Do you have a nanny?
Nika: Yes, because Timosha does not go to the garden. In addition, when he was eight months old, I called my daughter friends of the parents and said that she was leaving her husband in Italy, and the nanny should stay in the family! And now Tatiana is the closest friend of Timothy and a native person for us.
Now Timothy for six years, and his favorite Pesk Benya is two years older
Photo: Personal archive of Riki Garkalina and Pavel Akimkin
- And until eight months you cope with ourselves?
Nika: Yes, although it was difficult, because Timoshka almost did not sleep, but for me a dream is very important. Pasha, despite the fact that in the morning he needed to work, he spent sleepless nights, helped me very much. Like Pashin Mom, and Marina, father's sister, and dad. He could come in his free minute, take silently the stroller and go to walk for an hour. And when Timosh cried, he took him on his hands, and he shut down and poured. They have a complex relationship, they quarrel, put together, because they are similar, but with all this is very friendly. Recently, Dad was seriously ill, Timosh was very worried, as far as he understood due to its age. And when we arrived at the cottage, and he saw the grandfather came out to meet us, ran up to him joyful: "Grandfather, and not very much you are."
- The birth of Timoshi has changed something in your relationship?
Nika: Any woman naturally goes into this new state of motherhood when you understand that you are no longer granted yourself, you can not go there where you want, do what you want. I have not yet met that girl that it would not be thrown, but you get used to it. I did not go on the maternity decret at all, it was just less work. And Pasha had a hard issue in the theater of the nations of the play "Grooms", and he came after the rehearsal and was engaged in Timosh. He could also take me, and go to the store, and take all the household functions on ourselves. But we wanted a child, waited for him, it was not a random event.
- Pasha, when Timosh was born, did you feel something new came to your life?
Pavel: The first thing that I pop up from new sensations is the fear that appeared immediately as soon as Timosh was born. Puppies insane joy all the time fighting with the same paralyzing fear. Even no more about health, but relative to society: suddenly does anyone offend him or something bad happen? My mother once said: "Do not think about it, otherwise you will go crazy." I asked: "Mom, but how not to think about it?" "And so," says, "switch. I have two, I survived somehow. " The whole world, in essence, becomes hostile for you from the birth of a child. There are only small islands of rest, and everything else is experiences. But when he is near, I feel calmer.
According to Paul, the son of Timofey is a copy of Mom in early childhood. Although you can see and a certain similarity with the Father
Photo: Personal archive of Riki Garkalina and Pavel Akimkin
- Who is your top teacher, who follows the regime, classes, son's diet?
Pavel: It all knows Nick and our beautiful nanny. They found a certain mode for him. By the way, we thought for four years that Timofey could safely go to bed at the same time, when his parents, that is, it's late and not to get up early. And one day he was tired and lay at eight in the evening, and the next day was so calm, friendly and not capricious that I told Nick: We must try to put it again at this time. It turned out that it is perfect for him. And if I am at home, we can sit down and watch a movie with Nicky.
Nika: Somehow it was so that if we both want to see some kind of film or a performance, we do not do it separately so that no one was offensive. If Pasha has a long flight, he looks at those movies that do not exactly interest me. And I can also see some bridget Jones with friends. I was with my girlfriend in New York, we had a stunning journey, but I thought every minute: "How is it a pity that there is no Pasha, that he cannot see the same thing that I." And when in five years, we found themselves in this city together, we went together in the same places. And I was happy.
Pavel: Nick is very funny watching the movies - she is all the time in the phone. Titres begin, and she says: "Oh! I saw this actor somewhere, now, one second, "and on, she sometimes raises his eyes. There are some films on which she postpones the phone, but this happens quite rarely.
- With your ideal relationship, jealousy to you never looks?
Nika: I had no reason to even think about it. As for girls, Pasha girlfriends, then I am happy to be friends with them too. With Julia, Peresild and Lena Nikolaova we are even relatives. He is the godfather of their daughters. They have a wonderful course, very talented people, and watch them - a pleasure. We were lucky with Pasha with friends. He easily joined my company, and I am in it.
- Pasha, and you are a jealous man in nature?
Pavel: Judging by the past, Donikovsky period, I was jealous. Now - no, because the wife did not give me, first, never once a reason for this, secondly, I am absolutely sure of it as in a person. It seems to me that in order for me to be filled, there should be something to happen in our life ... I hope this will never happen.
- Do you have gifts in your house?
Nika: Yes! Pasha knows that I love surprises and that I am terribly curious. If you find out about the gift in advance, he loses all interest to me. And every time Pasha comes up with something, though, it seems to me that it is very hard. The most memorable gift was our trip to Copenhagen, in which we were already before and where it became clear that our relationship was more serious than we thought. He, of course, as a man believes that a gift should be practical, and wonders how you can enjoy from one hundred fifth rings, but even they find them unusual, designer. He is a van. And so it was at me at home, because Dad always brought us with mom's gifts when I went somewhere, he did it now. All my best things - it. When I tell me: "Oh, what is your beautiful dress!", - I answer: "Dad brought." He is always, to my surprise, knows my size and what is suitable for me, regardless of whether I knew or recovered. Pasha prefers to give another, because with Pope it's hard to compete. It seems to me that I won't surprise less than me. We love to do Timothy Surprises, give gifts and about and without reason. Gifts are also one of our values.